So three days after announcing he would do it he still doesn’t know how.

Lib Dem Martin Horwood suggested that Mr Cameron, like Barack Obama, didn’t have a strategy. It sounded to me like he’s right.

But MPs wanted to talk about other things, too. The first question was on Tory divisions on Europe, the second on local employment figures. They seemed out of place against the backdrop of Steven Sotloff’s grisly death.

Former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley went on to ask about the health of Scots, a Labour MP about malnutrition amongst the English.